Monday, 13 December 2010

There's an interesting snippet in this Melissa Kite article for the Telegraph. If true, it's rather a damp ending to Nick Clegg's self-declared ignition of the debate over government interference where it is not wanted.

Mr Clegg himself has abandoned a Bill to "get rid of bad law", palming it off on the Home Office, and so appears to have distanced himself from Tory attempts to free the citizen from unnecessary interference.

Hold on, Nick. This was your great big bells and whistles triumph. Your attempt to stamp your mark on history. Or, as you yourself termed it:

"As we tear through the statute book, we'll do something no government ever has: we will ask you which laws you think should go,"

Then came that video, of course. You know, the one where it became apparent that people were asking for things that Clegg's party didn't much fancy.